THE CHRISTIAN BROTHERS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 178, 25 August 1876, Page 13

THE CHRISTIAN BROTHERS.

— *-t — At the present moment the -well-known Christian Brother who is at the head of St. Joseph's College Buffalo, New York, is in Ireland looking for subjects for his community. We find in one of the Irish papers the following letters from his own and other eminent bishops recommending the good work in which he and his brothers are engaged. Episcopal Kesidence, Buffalo, March 2, 1876. We certify that the bearer, Brother Frank, is the worthy Director of St. Joseph's college, Buffalo, New York. We moreover earnestly commend him, and his work especially, to the most reverend prelates and the reverend clergy on whom he may call for council, aid, or co-operation. The good Christian Brothers are doing a noble work in educating the Catholic youth of America, and their only drawback is the paucity of their numbers. They cannot answer all the calls made on them from almost every section of the country, and hence, by the direction of his superiors, Brother Frank goes to Ireland in the hope of obtaining recruits from among the talented and religious youth of that Catholic land, whence have come so many of our priests and people, as well as the strength and efficiency of the devoted little army of Christian Brothers on this side of the Atlantic. We again commend him to the kind attention of our brethren abroad, and pray our dear Lord to keep him cafe in his journey, and vouchsafe to him a happy and speedy return to his own here. t Stephen Vincent Etan, I Bishop of .Buffalo. The Palace, Thurles, April 14, 1876. Brother Frank, Directer of the Coumnmnity of the Christian Brothers in Buffalo, New York, has come to Ireland on a recruiting mission, and knowing, as I do, the immense amount of good which the Brothers are doing throughout the length and breadth of the United States, and that the good they may do iB only limited by the number of hands they have to do it, I wish him every success, and earnestly recommend him to the kind notice and sympathy of the clergy and lait> of the dioceses. fT. W. Ceoke, Archbishop of Cashel. Kilkenny, April 25, 1876. , Brother Frank, of the Christian Brothers of the United States, has come to Ireland with the approval of his Superiors, to seek for young men who may be anxious to join that Order. The mission in which he is engaged is a most meritorious one, and on it the welfare of the families of many of our countrymen in the United States must depend. The Order has already effected immense good in the education of youth, and gives promise of a still wider sphere of usefulness. I earnestly commend Brother Frank to the clergy and Catholic laity of this diocese, and I will feel much obliged by their co-operating with him to promote the good work in which he is engaged. f Patrick F. Moean, Bishop of Ossory.